Imagination in Place

by Berry, Wendell

• ISBN13: 9781582437064
• ISBN10: 1582437068
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-02-01
• Publisher: Counterpoint

Summary

A Writer Who Can Imagine the "Community Belonging to its place" is one who has applied his knowledge and citizenship to achieve the goal to which Wendell Berry has always aspired-to be a native to his own local culture. And for Berry, What is "local, fully imagined, becomes universal," and the "local" is to know one's place and allow the imagination to inspire and instill "a practical respect for what is there besides ourselves."

Author Biography

Wendell Berry is the author of more than fifty books of poetry, fiction, and essays. He has been awarded the Cleanth Brooks Medal for Excellence in Southern Letters and the Louis Bromfield Society Award. He lives and farms with his wife, Tanya Berry, in Kentucky.

Table of Contents

Imagination in Place	p. 1
American Imagination and the Civil War	p. 17
The Momentum of Clarity	p. 39
In Memory: Wallace Stegner, 1909-1993	p. 45
Speech After Long Silence	p. 49
My Friend Hayden	p. 55
In Memory: James Still	p. 73
A Master Language	p. 77
My Conversation With Gurney Norman	p. 83
Sweetness Preserved	p. 87
Some Interim Thoughts about Gary Snyder's Mountains and Rivers Without End	p. 103
In Memory	p. 111
Against the Nihil of the Age	p. 115
The Uses of Adversity	p. 141
God, Science, and Imagination	p. 179
Acknowledgments	p. 193
Works Cited	p. 195
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